Re: [Docutils-develop] DocBook writer in sandbox

[Richard J. <rj...@ek...>]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:44, David Goodger wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
> > Do you have a mechanism for generating index entries?
>
> I doubt Oliver's DocBook writer does, because reStructuredText and the
> rest of DocBook doesn't, yet.  You'll be needing these?
>
> The reStructuredText mechanism most suited to index entries would be
> "interpreted text".  From the markup spec:
>
>     Text enclosed by single backquote characters is interpreted::
>
>         This is `interpreted text`.

An alternative to the "role" concept, where all text marked up in `backquotes` 
is assigned a particular role, would be to extend the parser to handle `index 
me`i or similar, to make the index tagging explicit.

Just thinking out loud here...


   Richard